EDITOR—The Wiki forgets to mention that Jean Pierre, besides being an overqualified WOKE specimen given her racial and LGBTQ creds, is also an accomplished red-baiter. This makes Jean Pierre something of a traitor to the political faith of her parents, reputedly members of Haiti’s Lavalas party. For those with no knowledge of Lavalas, or the alarmingly tragic political history of Haiti, all of it underwritten by French and later US imperialism, suffice it to say that Lavalas was led by the genuinely progressive Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a socialist / liberation theology priest who in 1990 became the first democratically-elected president of Haiti.
IMBECILITY UNBOUND
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GARLAND NIXON discusses the political and cultural roots of the “WOKE” phenomenon. and how this is being cynically used by the US establishment to claim concern for human rights, attack other nations, and displace attention from the more fundamental class struggle and its economic implications.
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Fox News Leaked Videos Intended To Smear Tucker BACKFIRES!
11 minutes readNow that Fox News and Tucker Carlson have parted ways, the news host’s former employer is doing everything possible to smear him and explain the network’s reasoning for having to let him go. The latest – a private text message from Carlson and other videos leaked to liberal outfit Media Matters, designed to paint Carlson as a racist, has fallen flat and actually depicted Carlson in, if anything, a positive light. Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Carlson’s comments, including his curious appraisal of the difference between how white people and people of color fight.
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Law & Order: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
9 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—Oliver is of course right. The judicial system is broken, it reflects the larger society with its myriad unfixable flaws, inequalities and pervasive corruption. And TV, until recently the most potent medium to control the masses (now equaled but not surpassed by social media), has always been in the business of selling us lies and conformity with the status quo. A big part of that job is to sell the public the notion that the repressive agencies are impartial, “class blind”, or on their side; or that they are benign, or, at worst, just incompetent but never evil. In that sense, Law & Order is part of a large roster of shows dedicated to burnishing the US capitalist “security” machine.
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Caity Johnstone’s Truth Bombs on Ukraine: Absolutely Must read.
41 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Empire apologists get upset when you talk about the fact that this war was provoked because a large amount of empire apologia in 2022 is built around pretending that provocation just isn’t a thing. By some trick of Orwellian doublethink, this concept we’ve all lived our entire lives knowing about and understanding is now suddenly a freakish and ridiculous invention of the Kremlin.